China’s traffic police are using AI smart glasses to identify vehicles in seconds, reduce inspection time, and improve road safety.
China’s traffic police are using AI smart glasses to identify vehicles in seconds, reduce inspection time, and improve road safety.
They can identify drivers instantly, thereby reducing privacy immeasurably. I say the same about speed cameras, and if they were installed everywhere the world would be much closer to 1984. Have you read that book?
How does the speed at which a vehicle identified relate to privacy? The ability to look up a vehicle by license plate has existed for a long time, this just speeds up an already existing process. Unless your proposing we abolish license plates for “privacy”, which would be extremely problematic for multiple reasons.
I have no clue how you’re missing the difference between a cop moving their head from side to side to id dozens of individuals and manually typing shit in to id one at a time.
You are coming off like a bootlicker. And I guess you answered my question despite having tried to ignore it. You didn’t read it
Do you really think cops sit there and manually type in every license plate? No, they have automated plate readers. This shit has existed since the 70’s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recognition
Not really sure how stating facts about currently existing technology makes me a bootlicker, but ok.
They cannot possibly do that. That’s my entire point. I have no idea what you’re arguing about other than you’re mad someone thinks this invades privacy which it 1000% does.
Please explain to me how using a computer to scan publicly visible information that you voluntarily submitted into a government database is a violation of privacy.
Please explain how losing the ability to move through society without every cop knowing you exactly who you are isn’t. I’ll wait.
Is that not a thing that’s possible now? Again, license plate scanners exist. This is not new.
Okay, from a naive POV, if this was only used for that purpose, sure it’s too bad. But there’s logging, theres extra info gathered here.
Scanning a plate instantly enters at a minimum, into a DB:
Do that a multiple times to the same car across the area, every day, now you can extrapolate where they go, when they go, predict what they’re doing in the future, the route they take the likely speed they’ll go and all sorts of other privacy invading info.
This data could be used to accuse you of a crime, of cheating on your spouse, of speeding without a speed camera based on distance between scans, doing nefarious in their eyes things, etc.
Edit: and just imagine if this data leaked, which it likely would. Stalkers would love it, among theives and all sorts of other people.
Again, the car info and owner are already available to police at will, instantly using plate scanners. The location, timestamp, and speed are also already being logged with your phone, whenever you use a gps to navigate, and sometimes even when you’re not. I’m not saying these things are good or bad, it’s just that people see AI and immediately jump to “this is literally 1984”, when it’s literally not, and it’s not too far off from technology that we already have permeated into society for a while now.
Nah, for me, this has absolutely nothing to do with AI. I don’t use my phone for nav and can easily leave it at home. This is 100% about security and reducing tracking and PII. Not to mention, not putting all the pieces together in one handy, easily leakable database.
Actually fuck this I don’t have time for these bad faith bullshits anymore. Blocking is a lovely feature.
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